McIlroy’s injury, struggles the talk of Day Two

Yesterday’s “oohs” and “ahhs” from the crowd have been replaced with quiet conversations of
disappointment on the second day of the Memorial Tournament. After Rory McIlroy, the leader before
teeing off at 8:26 a.m., played so well after hurting himself yesterday on hole seven, many
expected the same.

“I have to say I didn’t see this coming,” Lew Staum, Delaware, said. “He was favoring his left
knee on holes eight and nine, but not much after that when he was playing well.”

McIlroy took a turn for the worse starting on holes 13 and 14, where he double bogeyed on each.
The holes featured hitting trees, balls rolling off hills and into the water, and missed putts for
the world’s no. six. McIlroy has already missed more fairways this morning than all of
yesterday.

On hole 15, McIlroy’s bad luck continued, this time on a par five. After placing the ball on the
hill, he chipped it off the hill and back into another bunker, failing to par for the third
consecutive hole. He did save himself from a fourth bogey on hole 16, where he chipped the ball
into the hole out of the bunker for par.

McIlroy said his spikes got stuck in the ground on his second shot on hole seven, causing the
injury. After yesterday’s performance, where McIlroy shot seven under following the injury, he said
said “It was just a tweak, and I wasn’t thinking about the pain much.”

Spectator Frank Rosile, Youngstown, saw McIlroy early in the morning practicing and didn’t like
what he saw.

“He was wincing every time he would take a shot with his eight irons and drivers,” Rosile said. “
He would shoot, wince, stretch and repeat for about a half hour.”

“It was brutal,” he added.

All of this is happening while Adam Scott and Jason Day remain afloat and continue to miss
opportunities following good shots. Day missed an eagle putt on 15 after his second shot placed him
in good position on the green.